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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2025/97 by Anne McINTOSH to the Commission. Unemployment in the European Union's service sector industry
Date: 1997-06-11
Institutions: European Parliament, MCINTOSH
Subjects: European Social Fund, fight against unemployment, integration into employment, job cuts, operational programme, secondary sector, tertiary sector, unemployment, unemployment insurance













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2025/97 by Anne McINTOSH to the Commission. Unemployment in the European Union's service sector industry  


Official Journal C 391 , 23/12/1997 P. 0150 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-2025/97 by Anne McIntosh (PPE) to the Commission (11 June 1997)Subject: Unemployment in the European Union's service sector industryWould the European Commission not agree that, at present, the European Social Fund (ESF) is only helping deprived manufacturing sector areas, and that there is also a growing need to include assistance to those losing their jobs in the service sector industries?Currently the ESF is administered under Objective 3 for young people entering the job market for the first time, those facing exclusion from the labour market and women returners to work. Could we not also help those who have lost their jobs and whose jobs may be at risk in the service sector industries?Would the Commission therefore consider extending ESF programmes to the service sector, so that support can be targeted specifically at port-related activities and tourism sector unemployment?Answer given by Mr Flynn on behalf of the Commission (3 July 1997)The position is that European social fund (ESF) support is available to all sectors.Objective 3 interventions concern, as a first priority, the unemployed and in particular those exposed to long-term unemployment (Article 1 of European social fund Regulation (EEC) No 2084/93 ((OJ L 193, 31.7.1993. ))). Objective 3 operations promote equality of opportunity and support the occupational integration of the unemployed, of young people, and of those exposed to exclusion from the labour market in all sectors of activity, i.e. in the services sector as well as in manufacturing. Objective 3 interventions cover those in search of a first job as well as those who have lost their jobs.Objective 4 is aimed at workers in employment, particularly those threatened with unemployment. The European social fund Regulation specifies that objective 4 covers 'the economy as a whole, without a priori reference to specific industries or sectors'. Moreover, 'objective 4 addresses the underlying causes of problems relating to industrial adaptation, including services'.Of course, the ESF also contributes to the attainment of objectives 1, 2, 5b and 6 of the structural funds through the operational programmes put in place under these objectives.
WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2008/97 by Jonas SJÖSTEDT to the Commission. EU and Poland's environment legislation
Date: 1997-06-11
Institutions: European Parliament, SJOESTEDT
Subjects: Poland, accession to the European Union, anti-pollution device, approximation of laws, environmental policy, environmental protection, export (EU), motor car, technical barriers to trade













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WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2008/97 by Jonas SJÖSTEDT to the Commission. EU and Poland's environment legislation  


Official Journal C 021 , 22/01/1998 P. 0133 





WRITTEN QUESTION E-2008/97 by Jonas Sjöstedt (GUE/NGL) to the Commission (11 June 1997)Subject: EU and Poland's environment legislationAccording to the Polish environmental movement, the Commission is demanding that the country lower its standards on certain important aspects of its environment legislation. The Commission is reportedly demanding changes to the Polish rules on car imports. At present, Poland requires all imported cars to be fitted with catalytic converters and also bans imports of cars more than 10 years old. The Commission wants Poland to reconsider these rules.It is often stressed in debating future eastwards enlargement of the EU that membership would have a positive impact on the environment in the new Member States. The credibility of such an argument is seriously undermined when the EU is demanding that the present environment laws should be relaxed.The Commission's demands are unacceptable for several reasons. Poland is not a member of the Union. On what legal basis is the EU demanding that the country amend its laws? What specific measures and means of exerting pressure has the Commission used against Poland in these particular cases?Answer given by Mr Van den Broek on behalf of the Commission (18 July 1997)The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to its answer to Written Question P-1961/97 by Mrs Riis-Jørgensen ((See page 127. )).